While Patmos is one of the most beautiful of Greek islands, the port of Skala is a scruffy, utilitarian port with few tavernas and little to recommend it.

This website gives an honest opinion that you won't find in any of the tourist brochures and many of the tourist websites for that matter.

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The uncrowded beach is shaded by tamarisk trees and there is a taverna and a restaurant a short distance from the water's edge.

The monastery, which can be reached on foot by way of an ancient pilgrim's way, is a functioning spiritual centre of the Greek Orthodox church. Its collection of treasures, well worth seeing.

In the Dodecanese islands by boat from Kos, Leros or the north.

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